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MSNBC.com Sale?

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:14 am

Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBCUniversal operations is in talks with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to takeover the part of MSNBC.com which it does not already own. The rumor was reported in Adweek.Microsoft ...
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Mobile Advertising Booming on Tablets (AAPL, AMZN, SSNLF, GOOG, RIMM, NOK, BKS, MM)

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 1:32 pm

In the first quarter of 2012, the leading maker of mobile devices as measured by page impressions was Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), followed by Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF.PK), HTC Corp., ...
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Pandora Making Gains Against SIRIUS XM, Sort Of

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 8:55 am

Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) is seeing something very unusual this morning.  The stock is up huge after earnings.  It is hard to believe, but Pandora beat earnings and managed ...
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AMC Purchase By Wanda in China: Driving Up Value in Theater Values (CNK, RGC, CKEC)

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 11:56 am

There is one M&A transaction which is flying under the radar today and the reality is that shouldn't get lost in the shuffle.  Dalian Wanda Group out of China is ...
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Facebook Flirts With Busted IPO Status (FB)

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 3:31 pm

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has been a significant debut, and it has had some surprises even if we are about as sick of hearing this name as one could imagine.  ...
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Intelsat Files For IPO

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 3:20 pm

Intelsat Global Holdings S.A. has just filed for an initial public offering in a form F-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. No financial terms were set but the ...
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Live Blog of Facebook IPO (Updated Throughout The Day)

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 10:16 am

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is finally public.  After pricing about 421 million shares at $38.00, the company raised $16 billion without taking into consideration the green-shoe or overallotment option for ...
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Warren Buffett Tries To Save The Newspaper Business

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 9:26 am

It is no secret that the newspaper business has not been a good sector over the last decade.  Subscriptions declined about as fast as the number of smokers did in ...
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SINA Rides China Social Media & Microblogging Growth Bandwagon

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 8:55 am

SINA Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA) is surging this morning after the company's user base reached the 300 million registered user mark last quarter.  The company's Weibo microblogging site (A Chinese look-alike of Twitter) ...
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Groupon’s Gains May Be All Short Covering

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 2:26 pm

Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) had what turned out to be a stellar earnings report.  Shares rose handily on Monday as short sellers got out of the way and also as ...
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The 18 Big Risks To Consider In The Facebook IPO

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 7:14 am

It seems as though almost everyone wants a piece of the Facebook IPO.  The social networking giant is set to come public this Friday in what will be one of ...
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Apple More Deeply Joins Line Of Shutterfly Threats… More To Come

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 1:56 pm

Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) gets a bash whenever there is news that another player is going to come more into the cloud photo services.  Reports that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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What Yahoo! Will Buy To Expand Its Content Franchises?–The List

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 1:49 pm

New interim CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Ross Levinsohn, needs to make his mark quickly. After firing 2,000 people, his predecessor had plans to move the Internet portal into e-commerce, ...
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Shutterstock IPO Filing… Taking Aim At Getty Images & Corbis

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 10:35 am

Shutterstock Inc. has just joined the wave of online companies planning to come public via an initial public offering.  This company is an online stock photo website that gets its ...
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Yahoo! Needs to Keep CEO Ross Levinsohn

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:17 am

Now that Scott Thompson is out as CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Ross Levinsohn is in as interim chief executive, the newly constituted board needs to keep its new ...
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